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From: John covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's the deal with no gnome 2.18 in portage?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:08:39
Message-Id: 17921.725.974603.918041@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What's the deal with no gnome 2.18 in portage? by purple
1 on Wednesday 03/21/2007 purple(purpleritza@×××××.com) wrote
2 > well,i asked here that question as well and i sent mail to one of guys
3 > maintaining that part of portage,Daniel Gryniewicz and got very quick
4 > response from him telling me that they will include gnome 2.18 in portage
5 > when they achive minimum testing point of it..
6 >
7 > maybe this can help,i did it and running gnome 2.18 in no time,enjoy..
8 >
9 > http://gentoo-wiki.com/Portage_Overlay_Listing#Gnome_Experimental_Overlay
10 >
11 OK, excuse me for being an idiot, but I now have the gnome
12 experimental overlay installed, how do I now update all gnome packages
13 to their experimental versions?
14
15 Thanks.
16
17
18 > On 3/21/07, John covici <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
19 > >
20 > > on Tuesday 03/20/2007 Daevid Vincent(daevid@××××××.com) wrote
21 > > > http://www.gnome.org/start/2.18/
22 > > >
23 > > > http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=gnome
24 > > >
25 > > > Latest listed is 2.16.2
26 > > > There isn't even a 2.18 masked or anything.
27 > > >
28 > > > ??
29 > > I am interested if that were possible -- I heard there is already a
30 > > feature freeze on gnome 2.18, so if it can be done, it would be
31 > > appreciated here.
32 > >
33 > > --
34 > > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
35 > > How do
36 > > you spend it?
37 > >
38 > > John Covici
39 > > covici@××××××××××.com
40 > > --
41 > > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
42 > >
43 > >
44 >
45 >
46 > --
47 > purple..
48 > well,i asked here that question as well and i sent mail to one of guys maintaining that part of portage,Daniel Gryniewicz and got very quick response from him telling me that they will include gnome&nbsp; 2.18 in portage when they achive minimum testing point of it..
49 > <br><br>maybe this can help,i did it and running gnome 2.18 in no time,enjoy..<br><br><a href="http://gentoo-wiki.com/Portage_Overlay_Listing#Gnome_Experimental_Overlay">http://gentoo-wiki.com/Portage_Overlay_Listing#Gnome_Experimental_Overlay
50 > </a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John covici</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:covici@××××××××××.com">covici@××××××××××.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
51 > on Tuesday 03/20/2007 Daevid Vincent(<a href="mailto:daevid@××××××.com">daevid@××××××.com</a>) wrote<br> &gt; <a href="http://www.gnome.org/start/2.18/">http://www.gnome.org/start/2.18/</a><br> &gt;<br> &gt; <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=gnome">
52 > http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=gnome</a><br> &gt;<br> &gt; Latest listed is 2.16.2<br> &gt; There isn&#39;t even a 2.18 masked or anything.<br> &gt;<br> &gt; ??<br>I am interested if that were possible -- I heard there is already a
53 > <br>feature freeze on gnome 2.18, so if it can be done, it would be<br>appreciated here.<br><br>--<br>Your life is like a penny.&nbsp;&nbsp;You&#39;re going to lose it.&nbsp;&nbsp;The question is:<br>How do<br>you spend it?<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; John Covici
54 > <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="mailto:covici@××××××××××.com">covici@××××××××××.com</a><br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-user@g.o">gentoo-user@g.o</a> mailing list<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>
55 > purple..
56
57 --
58 Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
59 How do
60 you spend it?
61
62 John Covici
63 covici@××××××××××.com
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